SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is posed to speed up the rollout of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as part of its inoculation campaign as the European Union’s medicines regulator assessed that there is no link to blood clots found in some recipients. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced Thursday (local time) that [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Military personnel will begin receiving coronavirus vaccines starting in June, with those serving in inter-Korean border areas and at command and control centers to be high on the list, officials said Monday. Under the inoculation plan, the defense ministry began administering COVID-19 vaccines this month, and around 2,400 military [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to receive an AstraZeneca vaccine shot next week in preparation for participation in a Group of Seven (G-7) summit to be held in Britain, Cheong Wa Dae announced Monday, as health authorities here have decided to extend the use of the COVID-19 vaccine to [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin administering vaccines to members of the general public aged 75 and over and other virus-vulnerable groups starting next month as part of its inoculation campaign, health authorities said Monday, with a total of 12 million people to get their first COVID-19 vaccine shots during the [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea’s major hospitals starting COVID-19 vaccinations for their healthcare workers, the so-called low dead space (LDS) syringe has contributed to greatly increasing the number of vaccinated people per vial of the vaccine. The Seoul National University Hospital vaccinated a total of 3,240 people with 277 vials of [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will expand the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to people aged 65 and older to ramp up the vaccine rollout as new overseas studies showed its effectiveness, health authorities said Thursday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) initially excluded administering vaccines developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Heads of general hospitals in Seoul are stepping up as early recipients of the coronavirus vaccine to speed up the inoculation process. Gangnam Severance Hospital Director Song Young-goo became the first healthcare worker at the hospital to receive the AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. “This is how we reassure [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health authorities are likely to approve AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 65 and older this week following the publication of new data overseas showing effectiveness. An independent panel under the health ministry has concluded that the AstraZeneca vaccine is OK for older people, following in the [...]
ATLANTA, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — UPS (NYSE: UPS), The UPS Foundation and UPS Healthcare are moving quickly to support an equitable delivery program and sustainable global supply chain of COVID-19 vaccines. UPS, in collaboration with COVAX, Gavi, the vaccine alliance and CARE will initially facilitate the delivery of 20 million doses for countries that [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is accelerating its COVID-19 vaccination campaign one week after its first vaccine rollout, and more people are expected to receive their first shots despite controversies over recent reports of deaths. On Friday, the country began its long-awaited inoculation program, with health care workers and patients aged under [...]